How can supplication avert divine decree?

Question : That supplication is a means of removing harm; the view is that when a person supplicates, the supplication serves to avert the danger, or

Answer : All right. In the prayer for the eclipse, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said meaning that this is a warning that a punishment is about to occur, and if the people pray, this punishment is averted. And Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, makes a cause for every thing. Supplication may be such that Allah has decreed that this sick person will be ill, for example, for a month or two months or the like, but if the person supplicates, the sick person is healed by the permission of Allah, Mighty and Majestic. The one over whom you recite al-Fatihah is cured, even though if he were left alone, the pain from the poison resulting from the bite would have prolonged.